The Yardbirds arrived ro start their first US tour on this date in 1966. The Who's groundbreaking Quadrophenia and David Bowie's Pin Ups got released on his day in 1973. Tom Petty's Damn The Torpedoes dropped on 10/19/1979. Born on this date, Doobie Brothers Patrick Simmons (1945) and reggae great Peter Tosh (1944).